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As we manipulate everyday words, we forget that they are fragments of ancient and eternal stories, that we are building our houses…
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Under the imaginary table that separates me from my readers, don’t we secretly clasp each other’s hands?
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In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my…
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This enraged the other Nazi so much that the next morning he came to our house and he shot my father.
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So, it comes to pass that, when we pursue an inquiry beyond a certain depth, we step out of the field of…
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There are things than cannot ever occur with any precision. They are too big and too magnificent to be contained in mere…
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An event may be small and insignificant in its origin , and yet, when drawn close to one’s eye, it may open…
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...."the sound of a barrel organ rising from the deepest golden vein of the day; two or three bars of a chorus,…
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Man was entering under false pretenses the sphere of incredible facilities, acquired too cheaply, below cost price, almost for nothing, and the…
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My ideal goal is to "mature" into childhood. That would be genuine maturity.
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The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without…
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Animals! the object of insatiable interest, examples of the riddle of life, created, as it were, to reveal the human being to…
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War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.
— Omar N. Bradley
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Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.
— William Hazlitt
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Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused,…
— Dean Koontz
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The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he…
— H. L. Mencken
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People defend nothing more violently than the pretenses they live by.
— Allen Drury
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We are not deceived by their pretenses to piety. We have seen their kind before. They are the heirs of all the…
— George W. Bush
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I am apparently gentle, unstable, and full of pretenses. I will die a poet killed by the nonpoets, will renounce no dream, resign…
— Anais Nin
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In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp…
— Tacitus
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Home is the place where you are most thoroughly yourself, with no pretenses.
— Victoria Moran
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Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses.
— Confucius
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If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.
— Billy Sunday
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Our senior officers knew the war was going badly. Yet they bowed to groupthink pressure and kept up pretenses. ...Many of my…
— Colin Powell
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